1. Hugo Besemer, Wageningen University Research İlkay Holt, FAO of the UN
Discussion Group on Metrics and Indicators in Agricultural Sciences IGAD Plenary 5 April 2017, Barcelona
Hugo Besemer, Wageningen University Research
İlkay Holt, FAO of the UN

2. Participants
Hugo Besemer, FAO of the UN- Wageningen University, The Netherlands
İlkay Holt, FAO of the UN, UK
Thomas Ingraham, F1000Research, UK
Gert-Jan Stads, ASTI/IFPRI
Marie-Claude Deboin, CIRAD, France
Fernanda Peset, UPV, Spain
Antonia Ferrer, UPV, Spain
Ismael Rafols, Ingenio- CSIC-UPV, Spain
Elizabeth Zeitler, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, United States
Xuefu Zhang, CAAS, China
Martin Müller, IITA, Nigeria
Sufiet Erlita, CIFOR, Indonesia
Cristóbal Urbano, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent, INGENIO-UPV, Spain

3. Process
Societal impact indicators
Altmetrics
Citation metrics

4. Societal impact Challenges
Time frame
Granularity at national, institutional, project level
Goal replacement
Best thing to do is to measure interactions rather than outcomes
Better not to use indicators than using the wrong indicators
Interactions important in the sense of networking on similar groups, communities

5. Altmetrics Concentrating on traditional scholarly publications
Qualitative more important than quantitative
Use other social media data to show interactions

6. Citation based metrics
“Useless in Africa”
Visibility is a problem
Bias against interdisciplinarity
Bias against smaller commodities
List of other outputs of agricultural research than articles
Data re-used but not cited

7. Output of the group discussion
White paper on responsible use of indicators in agricultural sciences
Mailing list as a sharing platform